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Date:      Tue, 9 Jun 2026 23:27:01 -0700
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To:        Sulev-Madis Silber <freebsd-hackers-freebsd-org952@ketas.si.pri.ee>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: pkgfe
Message-ID:  <CAJ-Vmo=u0qF6vvMsO5_Y6LLjxUeX14LnLfe4TJ=Spk6gRXqgbg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <2C53379A-9D67-415B-820C-CF084408206E@ketas.si.pri.ee>

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oooo, i quite like this!



-a

On Mon, 8 Jun 2026 at 02:32, Sulev-Madis Silber
<freebsd-hackers-freebsd-org952@ketas.si.pri.ee> wrote:
>
> i'm currently in progress of putting pkgfe back into ports
>
> that's my 20+ year old project for ports tui i created out of frustration of having to copy and paste things around a terminal
>
> i think to this day we have no proper package search install delete ui. i think some barebones is in installer now?
>
> anyway why not have more than one way, like unix!
>
> however it's like effort to port this to poudriere+pkg use. to be honest it still includes features that only worked pre-pkgng times. i so far have used it with ports tree and portupgrade to this day
>
> so what would anyone here think of this? even 20y ago i included features there that i didn't use personally but i thought others could fine useful like execute as root command prefix and so on
>
> all the information below, complete with oldschool pages and questionable "version control" the 22 year old me created
>
>
> <https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=295922>;
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> <http://ketas.si.pri.ee/pkgfe/>;
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> <https://www.freshports.org/ports-mgmt/pkgfe/>;
>
> <https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/pkgfe/>;
>


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